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Other Purāṇas stories for children

Stories from Other Purāṇas, laid out to read aloud. This page is generated from stories that have already passed Sandhya Katha's publication gate.

What “with sources” means here. Every story below names the work and passage we checked, carries age guidance, and says when the tradition is variant, regional or oral instead of smoothing those differences away.

8 published stories

The Buffalo Nobody Could Fight Devī Māhātmya (Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa) · Chapters 2–3 Ages 8+ · stable in the checked source No god can beat him alone. So they each give up a piece of what they have, and something walks out of the pile that none of them expected. Read the sourced telling → The Woman Who Fed the World Devī Māhātmya (Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa) · Chapter 11, expanded from Devī Bhāgavata Purāṇa 7.28 Ages 6+ · variant A hundred years without rain. She arrives with vegetables growing out of her own body, and hands them out before she says a word. Read the sourced telling → Śiva Goes Begging at His Own Door Kāśī Khaṇḍa, Skanda Purāṇa · The Annapūrṇā of Kāśī Ages 6+ · regional tradition He has argued that the world is an illusion and food along with it. She turns the kitchens off. He lasts about a day, and then queues with a bowl. Read the sourced telling → The Foot She Almost Stepped On Devī Māhātmya; and the later tellings · Chapters 7–8, then tradition Ages 10+ · variant She has won, and she cannot stop. So he lies down in front of her, in the middle of it, and waits to see whether she looks down. Read the sourced telling → The Blade of Grass Kubera Couldn't Outweigh Gaṇeśa Purāṇa · Upāsanā Khaṇḍa, chapters 66–68 (Dūrvā-māhātmya sequence) Ages 6+ · variant Kubera puts his treasury, his wife and his city on a scale. One blade of grass offered to Gaṇeśa still weighs more. Read the sourced telling → The Night We Don't Look at the Moon Gaṇeśa Purāṇa · Upāsanā Khaṇḍa, chapter 62 — Description of the Moon's Curse and Favour Ages 6+ · variant Families are careful about looking at the Moon on one night of Bhādrapada. The Gaṇeśa Purāṇa tells why. Read the sourced telling → The Blade of Darbha in the Water Spout Uṣāharaṇa-kāvya; Skanda Purāṇa · Uṣāharaṇa-kāvya, Canto I; Skanda Purāṇa, Aruṇācala Māhātmya, Pūrva-khaṇḍa 6.51b–53 Ages 8+ · variant Before Vāmana's three cosmic steps, Śukrācārya blocks a water-pot spout and one blade of darbha changes the gift. Read the sourced telling → The Devī and the Messenger Devī Māhātmya · 5.2–129; 6.2–13 Ages 10+ · stable in the checked source A messenger lists everything Śumbha owns. The Devī answers a demand he cannot turn into her consent. Read the sourced telling →

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